Hard Things in Computer Science

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  • cbmc

    C Bounded Model Checker

    > The only reliable way to have bug-free code is to prove it. It requires solid mathematical foundations and a programming language that allows formal proofs.

    I'm going to be the "actually" guy and say that, actually, you can formally verify some studff about programs written in traditional/mainstream languages, like C. Matter of fact, this is a pretty lively research area, with some tools like CBMC [0] and Infer [1] also getting significant adoption in the industry.

    [0]: https://github.com/diffblue/cbmc

    [1]: https://fbinfer.com/

  • infer

    A static analyzer for Java, C, C++, and Objective-C

    > The only reliable way to have bug-free code is to prove it. It requires solid mathematical foundations and a programming language that allows formal proofs.

    I'm going to be the "actually" guy and say that, actually, you can formally verify some studff about programs written in traditional/mainstream languages, like C. Matter of fact, this is a pretty lively research area, with some tools like CBMC [0] and Infer [1] also getting significant adoption in the industry.

    [0]: https://github.com/diffblue/cbmc

    [1]: https://fbinfer.com/

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